diff --git a/zlibs/imaging b/zlibs/imaging
index bb8a710..8577c93 100644
--- a/zlibs/imaging
+++ b/zlibs/imaging
@@ -140,12 +140,10 @@ image_pack_dist() {
 		zerr
 	}
 
-	_xz=(xz -zv)
-	[[ $(command -v pixz) ]] && _xz=(pixz)
-	notice "compressing image with $_xz"
+	notice "compressing image with xz"
 	silly
 	pushd $workdir
-	${=_xz} "${image_name}.img"
+	xz -zv "${image_name}.img"
 
 	notice "generating sha256 for ${image_name}.img.xz"
 	sha256sum ${image_name}.img.xz > ${image_name}.img.xz.sha